The Winthrop University Archives collects and preserves records relating to South Carolina history. Including records of families, individuals, organizations, and businesses that have contributed to the history of the Catawba region and personal papers of women and records of women’s organizations significant in documenting the contributions of women to the state’s history.

Charleston, South Carolina. Holdings date from 1789 and continue to the present. The Archives include the papers of bishops, the administrative records of diocesan offices, chancery correspondence, and records of various agencies, religious orders, programs, and individuals reflecting the work and goals of the Church. In addition, we have the annual reports of parishes, parish histories, property records, deed and construction files, some architectural drawings, cemetery records, newspapers and photographs. Because individual parishes are required by Canon 535 to maintain their own archives, original registers containing sacramental records are not held in the Diocesan Archives. However, the archives often have microfilm copies of parish registers and these are available to search for sacramental records prior to 1930.

Sponsored by the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is a a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

The Special Collections Department serves as the official archives for both the South Carolina Baptist Convention and for Furman University. It also relates to the South Carolina Baptist Historical Society.

South Carolina. Digitizes and makes accessible unique local resources. Their mission is to consolidate the Lowcountry Digital Library to include a variety of materials from public and private archives, including but not limited to libraries, archives, and museums. The Lowcountry is defined in Wikipedia as (always) Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties; (usually) Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area, consisting of Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties; and (sometimes) Allendale, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties.

List of annual conference archive contacts for the state. For local Methodist church records, your best resource is the annual conference archives. The boundaries of the annual conference do not necessarily coincide with state boundaries, and some states may have several conferences within their borders.